March 2018 - openSUSE Marketing - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-marketing] ambassador reports
by Jos Poortvliet 23 Feb '25

23 Feb '25

Hi boosters, The marketing team has been brainstorming on how to give ambassadors a tad more attention in openSUSE; motivate them to make a bit more noise; and reward them for what they do. Now we have a few ideas, but for one, we thought it might make sense to use connect. Yes, it could probably be done via the wiki and other ways but I know you guys have a hammer and might see this as a nail :D *what is the problem* the ambassadors _sometimes_ create event reports. We want those reports for several reasons: - to have an idea of what they are doing - to measure how much we do - to motivate others - to SHOW what we do Unfortunately, not so many event reports are made although we're fairly sure many events have openSUSE attendance. This is due to several issues. *First*, not all ambassadors are so connected to us - many are not 'official ambassador' or their English skills are minimal and they are not internationally involved. I will send a follow-up mail with ideas on how to solve that. *Second*, filling in an event report on the wiki is not exactly easy for many. Some send one by mail - which is fine but leaves little record. *Third*, the reports receive little visibility. They are mentioned somewhere in the weekly news if you're lucky and of course on the marketing ML, but that's it pretty much. Numbers in it are not saved, we don't realy do anything with it as there is no real easy record. *The solution?* Ideally, the reports would end up in a central place, some database... And ideally, they would be connected to the ambassadors - so they can build up a trackrecord of events they have visited. Once we have this we can also show reports on eg news.o.o in a feed box on the side for example, or on our homepage. We can analyze and use statistics (for promo), promote events, do monthly articles - all kinds of things. We have an events page on en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Ambassador_events which suffers from similar issues - most people don't create a page because it is not easy and not localized. *connect.o.o* In short. We wonder - would Connect not offer a much better way of handeling events, event reports and the like? Would it not offer a better place for ambassador user accounts (with associated event reports as track records)? Culd it offer an easy place for ambassadors to add info for an event and afterwards add a report & pictures which we can then display in the planet feed (localized, if needed)? In case you think this is relevant, chuck and manu might have some time to help with this both in 'how to do it' (I would also love to think abou that) and the doing itself. Cheers, Jos

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[opensuse-marketing] Whats cool about openSUSE Flyer translation
by Sébastien 'sogal' Poher 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Hi all, Last weekend, I was holding a booth at a FOSS event (JDLL in Lyon, France). Thanks to Douglas Demaio, I had marketing material to give people (stickers and webcam covers were such a success !). The only "problem" if I may say is that all the flyers were in english. If this is OK in some more professionnal events, it is a problem when you want to convince average users to try openSUSE so I would like to translate those flyers : - "What's cool about openSUSE" (the one with the Cheat sheet inside) - "Linux for everyone" but I could not find the sources in https://github.com/openSUSE/artwork/ Can anybody tell me where I can find the sources (SVG files I assume ?) so I can translate them in French and have them printed for next event (probably Libre Software Meeting 2018 in Strasbourg, Fr in July https://rmll2018.info/index.html) Thanks a lot. Regards, -- Sébastien 'sogal' Poher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-marketing] Podcast Revisit
by Attila Pinter 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hi Doug, My apologies for the late reply, been crazy at work. So was thinking about this and if there is nobody to take up on the podcast idea and if Eric is still busy then me and my mate would be more than happy to start one. We would need to get work out of the way first, but within 1-2 weeks time we would be able to start to make preparations for this project as in getting some equipment, topics you mentioned earlier etc. Would this fly with you guys? Br, A. On 02/21/2018 01:25 PM, ddemaio wrote: > Hi Attila, > > Erich had brought the idea up, but said he was super busy and would > get around to it in the new year, but it looks like there hasn't been > any activity since late November. I don't have any time to do a > podcast but could certainly support a person doing it. I've never done > one myself, so I wouldn't exactly know where to begin. > > v/r > > Doug > > > On 02/21/2018 07:14 AM, Attila Pinter wrote: >> Hi Doug, >> >> As mentioned I'm not really a podcaster therefore I own no equipment >> specific to the task (not like it would be a big deal to get >> equipment). That being sad I would be happy to contribute servers for >> example or whatever is required. Can also pitch in with some >> marketing support as well. >> Is there anybody currently who could dedicate time and energy to host >> this podcast? >> >> Attila >> >> On 02/19/2018 03:53 PM, ddemaio wrote: >>> Hi Attila, >>> >>> We have a list of topics. I think the show would certainly need a >>> regular personality for the show. I'm sure if we select one, we can >>> start planning the day to do a show and from there we could start >>> doing more topics and work down the list. Do you have any equipment >>> that could be used? >>> >>> v/r >>> >>> Doug >>> >>> >>> On 02/18/2018 09:18 AM, Attila Pinter wrote: >>>> Hi Erich >>>> >>>> Couldn't help not noticing that openSUSE has no official podcast >>>> while other large distros are rolling out with official podcasts >>>> (Red Hat, Ubuntu and now Fedora) and in a thread on Twitter Richard >>>> Brown was kind enough and pointed me towards your direction. >>>> I understand that you are busy, but kinda hopping that you are >>>> maybe less busy nowadays ::) Would like to know if you could use >>>> any help to put some speed on this project? >>>> Not so much of a "podcaster" myself, but would be more than happy >>>> to help out with technicalities for example. >>>> >>> >> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner(a)opensuse.org

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